Why Surf Alone?: Exploring the Web with Reconnaissance Agents

Every click on a Web link is a leap of faith. When you click on the blue underlined text or on a picture on a Web page, there is always a [sometimes much too long] moment of suspense when you are waiting for the page to load. Until you actually see what is behind the link, you don’t know whether it will lead to the reward of another interesting page, to the disappointment of a “junk” page, or worse, to “404 not found”.